Rock displaced, noise and items inserted, Rock replaced, 08.26.12
nelimarkka residence
Back and Forth bike to Pyhävuori (Holy Mountain)
Seidas are holy places related to Sámi culture, the rocks are the home of gods, spirits and trolls. Sámi religion is based on an animistic ideology, in which everything – inanimate nature, natural phenomena, animals and plants – has a spirit. Most seida rocks are noticeable landmarks and clearly stand out in their environment.
Immigrant rock
Immigrant rock
rock, rope, 1hr walk from Nelimarkka museo/residence to the swimming docks 25.08.12 Open Actions performance collective [photos by K. Popiel]
Dry Ass Dust
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Dry Ass Dust 23.08.12 archival documents and graphite 1hr duration Nelimarkka museo
[photos by K. Popiel]
A museum is responsible for keeping and preserving its archive (arkisto). But what is worth keeping? When is it okay to delete an item from the archive? At my request the Nelimarkka museo has removed 3 paper documents from their collection, these I have destroyed by covering with graphite. I asked that these items then be retuned to their archive. Now, are they worth more or less?
Bike Loop Together
August 15, bike together around Alajärvi Lake, Finland (start and end at Nellimarkka Museo)
void/mitätön (6-10 actions)
void/mitätön installations/actions in void spaces; based on observations of local behaviours (with respect, I’m spying on people, taking notes/photos and making installations based on what i see)
action 5.10 The Failure of Language, reading but not seeing, seeing but not reading
words/anagrams, marker, paper
Et okei anagram of ekopiste meaning you’re okay or perhaps it means hits home
Esite kop anagram of ekopiste meaning knock out or meaning cheeks not
Peto eiks anagram of ekopiste meaning so, am beast or meaning predatory strike
action 5.9 Comb Clay layers, capacity and nutrients; land and body sustainability
clay, water, chocolate clay
action 5.8 Finillusia – land of illusion, wandering, wondering
forest, lichen crown, tattoo, shadow staalo
action 5.7 The Past is a Pond – I float up from it like a bubble
puluu tulevaisuuteen Back to the Future, ancestors, photocopies, pond water/lampi vesi
action 5.6 Otherwise what was in question was not going astray in the great forest but falling into a weird condition where everything was otherwise
Akseli Gallen-Kallela Lemminkäisen äiti in forest farm
void/mitätön installations/actions in void spaces; based on observations of local behaviours (with respect, I’m spying on people, taking notes/photos and making installations based on what i see)
Nelimarkka Residence, Finland
void/mitätön (1-5 actions)
void/mitätön installations/actions in void spaces; based on observations of local behaviours (with respect, I’m spying on people, taking notes/photos and making installations based on what i see)
action 5.5 “Turn me over if you find me face down in a ditch one day.”
reenactment of quote from Aki Kaurismäki’s Man without a Past 2002 (Mies vailla menneisyyttä); (collaborator K. Popiel)
action 5.4 providing throwing rocks heittää kiviä
action 5.3 Hotelli, Peikko tie
action 5.2 mimic koivu
cigarette papers on birch
void/mitätön installations in void spaces; based on observations of local behaviours (with respect, I’m spying on people, taking notes/photos and making installations based on what i see)
Nelimarkka Residence, Finland
kuka missä olen? who am i where?
Self-portrait, research, August 6, 2012 Nelimarkka Residence, Southern Ostrobothnia, Finland
Lotta Svärd
foto foto
river song
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kurejoki river
Pyhävuori
kivi
lampi
studio
During my stay Helsinki and Southern Ostrobothnia Finland, I choose to work with photography; this continuing self-portrait series is based on a conjunction of time, condition, and place
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